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Lt. Gen. Ulysses S. Grant and Mrs. Julia Dent Grant |
| April, 1845. Grant obtained leave for twenty days. He traveled to St. Louis to see Julia, and to gain her parents' consent to an engagement which had been a secret for almost a year. Colonel Dent doubted that Grant could support a family on a lieutenant's pay, but he liked Grant and could not deny his daughter's obvious determination. |
| August 22, 1848 Captain Grant was married to Julia Dent |
| May 30, 1850 Birth of the Grant's first child, Frederick Dent Grant |
| July 22, 1852 Birth of the Grant's second child, Ulysses S. Grant Jr. |
| July 4, 1855 After living for nearly a year at White Haven with Julia's parents, the Grant family now moved to Wish-ton-wish, another farm on the Dent estate. Here their third child Ellen, whom they called Nellie, was born on July 4. |
| February 6, 1858 came the birth of the fourth Grant child, Jesse Root Grant, Jr. |
